Thanks Christopher, That's what I recalled, and what has kept me (and apparently, a number of others) from using chord spacing. My previously-mentioned, failed experiment worked after adding entries to the test measure. I was able to verify the potential for ugly spacing with lengthy suffixes in addition to what you describe.
Would be really cool if MM could fix this in a similar fashion to how they handled lyrics. Don On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Christopher Smith < [email protected]> wrote: > Yes, there are very good reasons not to include chords in spacing! > > If you put a chord symbol over, say, an eighth note, it opens up a giant > amount of space in front of the next note. It doesn't seem to know that > there isn't a chord on the next note. > > Also, putting a check on Chords in Music Spacing doesn't seem to have any > effect unless we have actual entries in the measure. It only seems to avoid > collisions between ENTRIES with chords on them. If we have chord symbols > over notes in the measure, there isn't really a good way to space them, > except maybe putting hidden rests in another layer, which would mean having > to adjust stem directions, etc. > > Christopher > > > On Thu Oct 4, at ThursdayOct 4 10:00 AM, Jari Williamsson wrote: > > > Is there any specific reason why you don't include chords in the music > > spacing options? > > > > I think your solution of putting rests for spacing purposes is an > > excellent solution. That gives you the ability to control the width and > > chord placement quite well. If you need more space in some part of the > > measure, insert rests at half the duration and put twice as many rest > > for that part of the measure. > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > Jari Williamsson > > > > > > On 2012-10-04 15:14, Don Hart wrote: > >> Now that chords can be attached without notation I'm wondering how > others > >> go about spacing measures that only have the staff style "slash > notation" > >> in them. If nothing else occurs in the measure stack, and with the > minimum > >> meas. width set to zero, these measures are very squashed-looking. Bars > >> with several changes can still a problem since I usually have chords > >> unchecked in the music spacing prefs. > >> > >> I usually wind up doing what I had to do before chords could be attached > >> independently and put rests in each measure to provide basic, consistent > >> spacing (i.e., 4 quarter rests in each measure in 4/4). I copy this > >> throughout while setting up and change as needed while scoring. > Overall, > >> pretty painless, but I was curious if someone knew a better way to > handle > >> this, like maybe a different minimum measure width or something else. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Don Hart > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Finale mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > >> > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Finale mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
